Let's Talk Business!

The Université Antonine Faculty
of Business Administration has a strategic partnership with the South China Normal
University in Guangzhou, which particularly consists of a student exchange
program. Each year, 5 to 6 students get the chance to travel to China and spend
a full semester, between September and December, where they learn about the
Chinese culture, investment, entrepreneurship, and services, and even, how to
speak Mandarin. This exchange program is completed within a 4-week internship
in a Chinese enterprise. Each student comes back home with a China Business
Immersion (CBI) Program Diploma. In addition, on the research level, cooperation
exists between researchers of the UA and a large network of universities.

The faculty of Business has been
selected by the Association to Advance Collegial Schools of Business (AACSB) as
a candidate for the esteemed American accreditation. The Faculty hopes that
within the coming years, the Université Antonine School of Business will be
AACSB accredited; noting that, at present, only 3 business faculties in Lebanon
and in the Middle East are AACSB accredited. The AACSB accreditation will
leverage the UA Faculty of Business’ position in the region.

Corruption

For their final year, Bachelors
and Masters are required to prepare an individual mémoire in the
following subjects: banking and finance, marketing and management, accounting
and audit, human resource management. The mémoire consists of a literature
review and an empirical project.

Students who choose to tackle the
issue of corruption in their mémoire participate in a relevant contest.
Aspiring students submit their proposals to a commission composed of representatives
from the UNDP, the Lebanese Transparency Association (LTA) and Sakker el
Dekkaneneh NGO, in addition to a team from the Faculty of Business Administration.
Proposals are shortlisted to 10; and on December 9th, which marks
the UN International Anti-Corruption Day, the top 3 receive trophies and prizes.
This contest aims to encourage the students to develop civic responsibility,
promote ethics and create anti-corruption awareness.

Jobs

The Faculty emphasizes on
entrepreneurship as an effective means to help students overcome the high
unemployment rate in the country, which has crossed the 20% bar, forcing the
majority of the 16,000 graduates every year to work abroad, mainly in the GCC. In
the same spirit, third year students participate in a start-up contest, part of
their mandatory entrepreneurship course, where they develop their own business
plan, from scratch, a pillar to every business creation. Kafalat plays the
incubator role. Cases are presented to a jury of Kafalat, Berytech and others,
shortlisted to 10 and the top 3 receive prizes and trophies. In case the contestants
wish to bring their project to life, the incubators offer financial support.

A Professional Insertion Service
was created 2 years ago to give students the proper knowledge, skills, tools
and know-how, to get employed after graduation. The Faculty has created and
maintains links with the public and private sectors, companies, banks,
institutions and HR agencies, for the sake of jobs and internships.

Dr. Georges NEHMEH, Vice President for Quality & Accreditation, Dean of the Faculty of Business Administration